No sex in the champagne room on your cell phone.

Doesn’t it just suck that you can only get porn on your computer, television, downloaded to you iPod, but you can’t take it on your phone?

… porn already is widely distributed across the Internet, on cable TV, and video-on-demand channels in the U.S. without much fuss.

Why can’t we get our porn on our phones? Who is this “Big Brother” that is stopping me from my mobile porn?

“The carriers make so much money on voice, and it’s a lot to have them stick their head out there and compromise a base that’s largely Midwest or largely family to say we have adult content,” he said, during a porn panel at the Santa Monica, California conference.

Well isn’t that great. I get awful reception in my apartment, texting sucks without a crackberry or Trio, and damn if downloading videos don’t eat my phones battery. So all of this to save me from myself. To save me from my porn on the go.

Honestly, I can’t speak for my porn habits, but my bus riding buddy, if they want porn, why not? Why even our neighbors across the sea have it on the go, how is that for liberty?

While mobile porn is popular in Europe and other parts of the world, where mobile carriers can block minors from viewing porn, U.S carriers have declined to adopt age verification infrastructure—or take any other steps to peddle porn—for fear of the reaction from conservative Americans, said Clint Fayling, of BrickHouse Mobile, which bundles porn content for mobile phones in Europe.

It’s blocked. Okay. But is there a need? Will there be consumers? If there isn’t a demand then the carries have no purpose to pursue the mobile porn. Why would they if they don’t make money.

Sex content is widely believed to account for 60-80 percent of Internet traffic, and it’s expected to become a $3.3 billion mobile industry globally by 2011, according to Juniper Research.

One carrier will eventually take the plunge in to adult content on the cell phones. It will either create a massive economic boom or interest groups around the country will jump at the sexualized images of America. My bet, both will happen. Who comes out victorious though will say a lot for where our country is headed.

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Porn has been available on mobiles ever since web browsing became available on them. I discovered this during a boring oceanography lecture in college. I think this is grounds for the makers of those “hands-free” apparatuses to add view screens to their handy little accessories….